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Movie Review – Sprinter (2019)

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Sprinter, 2019. Directed by Storm Saulter. Starring Kadeem Wilson, Dennis Titus, Shantol Jackson, Bryshere Y. Gray, Lorraine Toussaint, and David Alan Grier. SYNOPSIS: A boy separated from his mother who has moved to the U.S. for a better life, is set to be Jamaica’s next track-and-field sensation. Inspirational films that show the ongoing conflicts between […]

Movie Review – The Shiny Shrimps (2019)

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The Shiny Shrimps, 2019. Directed by Maxime Govare and Cédric Le Gallo. Starring Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, Roland Menou, Romain Brau, Roland Menou, Geoffrey Couët, David Baïot, Félix Martinez and Maïa Quesemand. SYNOPSIS: A champion swimmer is forced into coaching a gay water polo team in an attempt to restore his public reputation […]

Movie Review – Empathy, Inc. (2019)

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Empathy, Inc. 2019. Directed by Yedidya Gorsetman. Starring Zack Robidas, Kathy Searle, Jay Klaitz, Eric Berryman, Charmaine Reedy, AJ Cedeno, and Fenton Lawless. SYNOPSIS:  An investor in a VR startup discovers that the reality the company provides isn’t virtual. Yedidya Gorsetman’s Empathy, Inc. evokes a breed of low-fi fantasy cut from Primer and Escape From […]

Carnival Row Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘The World To Come’

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Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Carnival Row… Amongst the human sacrifice, stark brutality and interracial coupling there is something uplifting about this penultimate episode, which brings everything into sharp relief. A love of the new, an exploration into the unknown and a casting off of traditional approaches is tangible. Both in political circles […]

Movie Review – Inna de Yard (2019)

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Inna de Yard, 2019. Directed by Peter Webber. Featuring Ken Boothe, Kiddus I, Jah9, Winston McAnuff, Judy Mowatt, Cedric Myton, Lloyd Parks. SYNOPSIS: British filmmaker Peter Webber follows a group of pioneering reggae artists as they reunite in the hills overlooking Kingston to record an acoustic album. Initially, it might appear something of an oddity […]

Video Game Review – Super Wiloo Demake

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Villordsutch reviews Super Wiloo Demake… Throughout gaming history the humble ‘Platformer’ has been a mainstay within most gamers’ libraries.  Reason being, quite frankly, the rules are fairly simple. Walk or run on numerous platforms, gather the strewn items, dodge (or squash) the well placed meanies and then progress further onto more perilously-placed platforms.  From Manic […]

Movie Review – Clownado (2019)

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Clownado, 2019. Directed by Todd Sheets. Starring John O’Hara, Rachel Lagen, Bobby Westrick, Antwoine Steele, Dilynn Fawn Harvey, and Linnea Quigley. SYNOPSIS:  Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, Elvis impersonator, truck driver, teen runaway, and a dude get caught in the supernatural battle between femme fatal and […]

Movie Review – It Chapter Two (2019)

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It Chapter Two, 2019. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Skargard, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Teach Grant, Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, and Nicholas Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: 27 years after the Loser’s Club stopped Pennywise’s […]

Carnival Row Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Unaccompanied Fae’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Carnival Row… Prejudice takes the front seat as secrets are revealed, loved ones betrayed and museum exhibitions considered no better than theft dressed up as preservation. Heritage, history and tradition are seen as unwanted acknowledgements of a lesser species to some, which causes nothing but unrest, retribution and […]